on this day
Happy 56th birthday soprano Anne Schwanewilms
Born on this day in 1894 soprano Yvonne Printemps
Born on this day in 1921 tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano
Happy 64th birthday mezzo-soprano Susan Graham
Born on this day in 1909 soprano Licia Albanese
Born on this day in 1936 soprano Ursula Schröder-Feinen
Born on this day in 1938 actresses Natalie Wood and Diana Rigg
Born on this day in 1868 soprano Florence Foster Jenkins
Happy 70th birthday composer Tobias Picker
Born on this day in 1914 soprano Eleanor Steber
On this day in 1782 Mozart‘s Die Entführung aus dem Serail premiered in Vienna
Happy 44th birthday to Broadway’s Laura Benanti
Born on this day in 1918 director and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman
Born on this day in 1924 tenor Carlo Bergonzi